Description:
Duties & Responsibilities
Administrative:
- Oversee the day-to-day operations of the museum, including strategic direction, budgeting, staffing, overall leadership, and College of Pharmacy representation.
- Maintain active communication with donors, College faculty and staff, the museum board, UA Foundation, and other key stakeholders.
- Handle media inquiries in collaboration with the College of Pharmacy Communications Manager.
Collections Management:
- Implement and enforce acquisition policies and manage processes.
- Assure the ethical integrity of the Museum’s collection management polices and procedures.
- Maintain and manage the collection with regard to records, forms, legal documents, manual and computer files, technical photography and system associated with acquisition, de-accessioning, lending, borrowing, packing, shipping (international and domestic), inventory, storage, and traveling exhibitions.
- Conduct all accessioning for new collection objects as well as the backlog.
- Oversee the maintenance and cataloging of collection items.
- Digitize collection objects and attach images in database; promote images on social media and website.
Visitor Services/ Outreach / Education:
- Promote access through campus partnerships, community outreach, and social media.
- Serve as liaison with faculty and staff, donors, students, researchers, peer institutions, and the general public by answering requests for information.
- Manage visitor services team of students, interns, and/or volunteers to maintain museum security, greet patrons, conduct tours, answer questions, and create social media posts.
- Direct tours, create and lead instructional sessions, give presentations, and host events.
- Plan, develop, and implement museum services, collections, and programs that best serve the institution’s community.
- Organize outreach and educational programs such as workshops and lectures.
- Partner with campus and community organizations to expand content using creative and innovative approaches.
- Track visitor statistics and apply creative methods to develop new audiences.
- Participate in public relations and marketing of the museum.
Exhibitions/ Content Generation:
- Oversee exhibit spaces and research collections to curate rotating exhibitions as well as digital content.
- Conduct extensive evaluations and assessments of outdated exhibition spaces and develop new approaches to interpreting and sharing collection content.
- Make selection decisions for exhibit displays, design labels and displays, and oversee the installation of exhibits.
- Develop publications, guidebooks, and online content related to the collection.
- Ensure accessibility needs are met for ADA compliance, directional signage, and bilingual text.
- Update content on website.
Service:
- May publish peer-reviewed scholarship on collections or professional practices.
- May participate in professional development activities.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Skills in artifact handling and collections management.
- Knowledge and ability to supervise staff, students, interns, and volunteers.
- General knowledge with technology commonly used in museums.
- Knowledge of working with visitors and the general public.
Minimum Qualifications
- Master's degree in a relevant field required or equivalent advanced learning attained through professional level experience.
- Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience, or equivalent combination of education and work experience.